Congress’ image could emerge as an election topic, with 55 percent of respondents saying corruption will be the most important or a very important issue to consider when voting in November, when all 435 House seats, and 33 Senate seats, will be decided.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAvant m\u00eame de se faire sentir, l’effet Abramoff est dans tous les esprits, montrant l’actuelle fragilit\u00e9 du monde politique \u00e0 Washington. L’ann\u00e9e \u00e9lectorale du mid-term<\/em> s’ouvre dans une atmosph\u00e8re de profonde incertitude d\u00e9j\u00e0 color\u00e9e d’angoisse et de panique. L’analyse d’AP rapporte ces jugements : \u00ab You don’t have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water, said GOP consultant Rich Galen. Galen said even lawmakers in seemingly safe districts, and those who don’t have a reputation for being fast and loose with the rules, could be vulnerable if voters rise up in reproach and everybody drops five or six points in this year’s midterm contests.<\/em> (…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Most seats in Congress are relatively safe this year. But they are not safe from a tsunami, said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, author of a book on political scandals. Iraq, plus economic problems, plus these scandals, could produce a tsunami. That’s what every incumbent on Capitol Hill has to fear.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Le lobbyist en chef de Washington, Jack Abramoff, a plaid\u00e9 coupable de divers chefs d’inculpation dans le cadre de ses activit\u00e9s politico-affairistes, essentiellement aupr\u00e8s du Congr\u00e8s. Une d\u00e9p\u00e8che d’Associated Press observe: \u00ab The investigation is believed to involve up to 20 members of Congress and aides and possibly several administration officials. \u00bb Le New York… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4913,3687],"class_list":["post-67151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-abramoff","tag-lobbying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}